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Foundation models (FMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in medical image analysis, offering the potential to provide generalizable, task-agnostic solutions across a wide range of clinical tasks and imaging modalities. Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Karma Phuntsho , Abdullah , Kyungmi Lee , Ickjai Lee , Euijoon Ahn

Foundation models (FMs) promise to generalize medical imaging, but their effectiveness varies. It remains unclear how pre-training domain (medical vs. general), paradigm (e.g., text-guided), and architecture influence embedding quality,…

Despite the significant potential of Foundation Models (FMs) in medical imaging, their application to prognosis prediction remains challenging due to data scarcity, class imbalance, and task complexity, which limit their clinical adoption.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Filippo Ruffini , Elena Mulero Ayllon , Linlin Shen , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years and support training classifiers for a range of histopathology tasks. However, their robustness across hospitals remains limited: performance often degrades when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ben Vardi , Dana Schonberger , Yuval Friedmann , Zohar Yakhini , Iris Barshack , Alexander Loebel , Ariel Shamir

The rapid proliferation of open-source medical foundation models (FMs) raises a practical question: how well do their pre-trained representations transfer to clinically relevant but data-scarce classification tasks? Particularly in CT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hartmut Häntze , Sarah de Boer , Myrthe Buser , Alessa Hering , Bram van Ginneken , Mathias Prokop , Jawed Nawabi , Sebastian Ziegelmayer , Lisa Adams , Keno Bressem

Cancer research is increasingly driven by the integration of diverse data modalities, spanning from genomics and proteomics to imaging and clinical factors. However, extracting actionable insights from these vast and heterogeneous datasets…

Bioinformatics has witnessed a paradigm shift with the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through the adoption of foundation models (FMs). These AI techniques have rapidly advanced, addressing historical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-08 Qing Li , Zhihang Hu , Yixuan Wang , Lei Li , Yimin Fan , Irwin King , Le Song , Yu Li

Neuro-oncology poses unique challenges for machine learning due to heterogeneous data and tumor complexity, limiting the ability of foundation models (FMs) to generalize across cohorts. Existing FMs also perform poorly in predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Moinak Bhattacharya , Angelica P. Kurtz , Fabio M. Iwamoto , Prateek Prasanna , Gagandeep Singh

Computational pathology foundation models (CPathFMs) have emerged as a powerful approach for analyzing histopathological data, leveraging self-supervised learning to extract robust feature representations from unlabeled whole-slide images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Dong Li , Guihong Wan , Xintao Wu , Xinyu Wu , Ajit J. Nirmal , Christine G. Lian , Peter K. Sorger , Yevgeniy R. Semenov , Chen Zhao

Foundation models are widely employed in medical image analysis, due to their high adaptability and generalizability for downstream tasks. With the increasing number of foundation models being released, model selection has become an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Fuping Wu , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Foundation models (FMs), large neural networks pretrained on extensive and diverse datasets, have revolutionized artificial intelligence and shown significant promise in medical imaging by enabling robust performance with limited labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Salah Ghamizi , Georgia Kanli , Yu Deng , Magali Perquin , Olivier Keunen

Pretraining on large-scale, in-domain datasets grants histopathology foundation models (FM) the ability to learn task-agnostic data representations, enhancing transfer learning on downstream tasks. In computational pathology, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pablo Meseguer , Rocío del Amor , Valery Naranjo

Foundation models (FMs) are rapidly reshaping medical imaging, shifting the field from narrowly trained, task-specific networks toward large, general-purpose models that can be adapted across modalities, anatomies, and clinical tasks. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Chuang Niu , Pengwei Wu , Bruno De Man , Ge Wang

Foundation models (FMs) are large-scale deep learning models trained on massive datasets, often using self-supervised learning techniques. These models serve as a versatile base for a wide range of downstream tasks, including those in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Wasif Khan , Seowung Leem , Kyle B. See , Joshua K. Wong , Shaoting Zhang , Ruogu Fang

Computational pathology (CPath) has shown great potential in mining actionable insights from Whole Slide Images (WSIs). Deep Learning (DL) has been at the center of modern CPath, and while it delivers unprecedented performance, it is also…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-31 Gianluca Carloni , Biagio Brattoli , Seongho Keum , Jongchan Park , Taebum Lee , Chang Ho Ahn , Sergio Pereira

Healthcare foundation models have largely followed paradigms from natural language processing and computer vision, emphasizing large scale pretraining and deterministic representations over heterogeneous clinical data. However, clinical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qian Zhou , Yuanyun Zhang , Shi Li

Mitotic figures are classified into typical and atypical variants, with atypical counts correlating strongly with tumor aggressiveness. Accurate differentiation is therefore essential for patient prognostication and resource allocation, yet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Mieko Ochi , Bae Yuan

Foundation models (FMs) are driving a prominent shift in biomedical imaging from task-specific models to unified backbone models for diverse tasks. This opens an avenue to integrate imaging, pathology, clinical records, and genomics data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Amgad Muneer , Kai Zhang , Ibraheem Hamdi , Rizwan Qureshi , Muhammad Waqas , Shereen Fouad , Hazrat Ali , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Jia Wu

The rise of biomedical foundation models creates new hurdles in model testing and authorization, given their broad capabilities and susceptibility to complex distribution shifts. We suggest tailoring robustness tests according to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-01 R. Patrick Xian , Noah R. Baker , Tom David , Qiming Cui , A. Jay Holmgren , Stefan Bauer , Madhumita Sushil , Reza Abbasi-Asl

Constructing a robust model that can effectively generalize to test samples under distribution shifts remains a significant challenge in the field of medical imaging. The foundational models for vision and language, pre-trained on extensive…